James Earl Jones
Acting
1931-01-17 · Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA
James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. He was described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen, and "one of the greatest actors in American history". Over his career, he received three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011. His deep voice has been praised as a "stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects.
Filmography
Indiana Jones Adventure | Disneyland Resort
2025 · Movie
Mufasa: The Lion King
2024 · Movie
BET News & ET Present James Earl Jones: Life and Legacy
2024 · Movie
Butterfly in the Sky
2024 · Movie
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022 · Series
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Movie
Coming 2 America
2021 · Movie
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019 · Movie
The Movies That Made Us
2019 · Series
On Broadway
2019 · Movie
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019 · Movie
The Lion King
2019 · Movie
The Space: Theatre of Survival
2019 · Movie
Words from a Bear
2019 · Movie
Warning Shot
2018 · Movie
The Lion Guard: Life In The Pride Lands
2017 · Movie
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 · Movie
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar
2016 · Movie
Driving Miss Daisy
2015 · Movie
Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal
2015 · Movie
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015 · Movie
Star Wars Rebels
2014 · Series
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
2014 · Movie
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014 · Movie
Gimme Shelter
2013 · Movie
Muse of Fire
2013 · Movie
Blackfish
2013 · Movie
Milius
2013 · Movie
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road
2012 · Movie
Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012 · Movie
Strange Septembers: The Hill Abduction & the Exeter Encounter
2011 · Movie
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010 · Movie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · Movie
Jack and the Beanstalk
2009 · Movie
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008 · Movie
Earth
2007 · Movie
The Big Bang Theory
2007 · Series
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007 · Movie
John, Paul, George and Ben
2007 · Movie
Searching for Orson
2006 · Movie
The One Show
2006 · Series
Click
2006 · Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Movie
Scary Movie 4
2006 · Movie
The Benchwarmers
2006 · Movie
The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
2006 · Movie
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005 · Movie
The Sandlot 2
2005 · Movie
The Reading Room
2005 · Movie
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Movie
Robots
2005 · Movie
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 · Movie
House
2004 · Series
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004 · Movie
Nine Dog Christmas
2004 · Movie
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
2004 · Movie
The Story of Star Wars
2004 · Movie
Black Indians: An American Story
2004 · Movie
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
2003 · Movie
Two and a Half Men
2003 · Series
The Great Year
2003 · Movie
Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
2003 · Movie
Everwood
2002 · Series
Fredericksburg: A Documentary Film
2002 · Movie
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001 · Movie
Feast of All Saints
2001 · Movie
Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
2001 · Movie
According to Jim
2001 · Series
Finder's Fee
2001 · Movie
Disney's American Legends
2001 · Movie
Antietam: A Documentary Film
2000 · Movie
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
2000 · Movie
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
2000 · Movie
The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove
2000 · Movie
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000 · Movie
Fantasia 2000
2000 · Movie
Ennis' Gift
2000 · Movie
Santa and Pete
1999 · Movie
The Annihilation of Fish
1999 · Movie
Undercover Angel
1999 · Movie
On the Q.T.
1999 · Movie
Summer's End
1999 · Movie
Our Friend, Martin
1999 · Movie
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
1998 · Movie
Will & Grace
1998 · Series
Merlin
1998 · Series
Primary Colors
1998 · Movie
Alone
1997 · Movie
The Second Civil War
1997 · Movie
What the Deaf Man Heard
1997 · Movie
Gang Related
1997 · Movie
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
1997 · Movie
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
1997 · Movie
Stargate SG-1
1997 · Series
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997 · Movie
Good Luck
1997 · Movie
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1997 · Movie
Afro Promo
1997 · Movie
Timepiece
1996 · Movie
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996 · Movie
Looking for Richard
1996 · Movie
Corwin
1996 · Movie
A Family Thing
1996 · Movie
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996 · Series
Cry, the Beloved Country
1995 · Movie
Who's in Rabbit's House?
1995 · Movie
Judge Dredd
1995 · Movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Movie
The Making of 'Jurassic Park'
1995 · Movie
Jefferson in Paris
1995 · Movie
Under One Roof
1995 · Series
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable
1995 · Movie
Signs and Wonders
1995 · Series
People: A Musical Celebration
1995 · Movie
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994 · Movie
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Series
Clear and Present Danger
1994 · Movie
The Making of the Lion King
1994 · Movie
The Lion King
1994 · Movie
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994 · Movie
Clean Slate
1994 · Movie
Africa: The Serengeti
1994 · Movie
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · Movie
Gangs: Turning the Corner
1994 · Movie
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
1994 · Movie
The Vernon Johns Story
1994 · Movie
Hallelujah
1993 · Movie
Michael Jackson: Dangerous - The Short Films
1993 · Movie
Frasier
1993 · Series
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993 · Series
Percy & Thunder
1993 · Movie
The Meteor Man
1993 · Movie
Dreamrider
1993 · Movie
Excessive Force
1993 · Movie
The Sandlot
1993 · Movie
Sommersby
1993 · Movie
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Series
Lincoln
1992 · Movie
Picket Fences
1992 · Series
Sneakers
1992 · Movie
Patriot Games
1992 · Movie
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Series
The JFK Conspiracy
1992 · Movie
Pros and Cons
1991 · Series
True Identity
1991 · Movie
When It Was a Game
1991 · Movie
Scorchers
1991 · Movie
Portrait of Castro's Cuba
1991 · Movie
Visitors from the Unknown
1991 · Movie
Convicts
1991 · Movie
Grim Prairie Tales
1990 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series
Gabriel's Fire
1990 · Series
Ivory Hunters
1990 · Movie
Heat Wave
1990 · Movie
Last Flight Out
1990 · Movie
By Dawn's Early Light
1990 · Movie
The Ambulance
1990 · Movie
The Hunt for Red October
1990 · Movie
Teach 109
1990 · Movie
Terrorgram
1990 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried
1989 · Movie
Best of the Best
1989 · Movie
Field of Dreams
1989 · Movie
Long Ago and Far Away
1989 · Series
Three Fugitives
1989 · Movie
The Hunting of the Snark
1989 · Movie
Stories to Remember: Noah's Ark
1989 · Movie
Garfield and Friends
1988 · Series
Coming to America
1988 · Movie
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
1988 · Movie
Matewan
1987 · Movie
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
1987 · Movie
Gardens of Stone
1987 · Movie
A House Divided
1987 · Movie
Mathnet
1987 · Series
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
1986 · Movie
Soul Man
1986 · Movie
L.A. Law
1986 · Series
My Little Girl
1986 · Movie
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1986 · Movie
The Lone Star Kid
1986 · Movie
Moses
1985 · Movie
City Limits
1985 · Movie
Me & Mom
1985 · Series
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Movie
The Atlanta Child Murders
1985 · Series
Visual Pathfinders: Robert Abel & Associates
1985 · Movie
The Vegas Strip War
1984 · Movie
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Series
CBS Schoolbreak Special
1984 · Series
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
1984 · Movie
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Series
Return of the Jedi
1983 · Movie
Blood Tide
1982 · Movie
Amy and the Angel
1982 · Movie
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
The Flight of Dragons
1982 · Movie
Conan the Barbarian
1982 · Movie
Night of 100 Stars
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Golden Book Video - Beauty and the Beast
1981 · Movie
The Creation
1981 · Movie
The Bushido Blade
1981 · Movie
There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
1981 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast
1981 · Movie
God's Trombones
1981 · Movie
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
1980 · Movie
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Movie
The Me Nobody Knows
1980 · Movie
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
1980 · Series
Paris
1979 · Series
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979 · Movie
Roots: The Next Generations
1979 · Series
Paul Robeson
1979 · Movie
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 · Movie
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Series
The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978 · Movie
The Story of the Faithful Wookiee
1978 · Movie
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978 · Series
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened
1977 · Movie
A Piece of the Action
1977 · Movie
The Making of Star Wars
1977 · Movie
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 · Movie
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1977 · Movie
Star Wars
1977 · Movie
The Greatest
1977 · Movie
Jesus of Nazareth
1977 · Series
Swashbuckler
1976 · Movie
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
1976 · Movie
The River Niger
1976 · Movie
Deadly Hero
1975 · Movie
The UFO Incident
1975 · Movie
Vegetable Soup
1975 · Series
Dinah!
1974 · Series
The Cay
1974 · Movie
Claudine
1974 · Movie
King Lear
1974 · Movie
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Series
Black Omnibus
1973 · Series
The Man
1972 · Movie
Malcolm X
1972 · Movie
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Legacy of a Dream
1971 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
The Great White Hope
1970 · Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Movie
End of the Road
1970 · Movie
Sesame Street
1969 · Series
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Series
The Comedians
1967 · Movie
Tarzan
1966 · Series
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Movie
East Side/West Side
1963 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Dr. Kildare
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Lamp Unto My Feet
1948 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
Movie
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie